Affordable fun

Affordable recreational centers, particularly for the youth are perfectly desirable. Sure, youth from well to do families have no problems in this direction as do the less advantaged, since the former have a better access to such facilities alone or with parents.
This is a universal problem in regard to most African countries, irrespective of their levels of development. In point of fact, if we take the rural areas as opposed to city life, the case for Ethiopia has much to offer. Most of the country side provides the youth with options - horse-back riding, traditional hockey, swimming, sling shot bird hunting, etc. If, on the other hand, herding cattle in the fields and the hills could be considered partly as physical exercise, one could say that some African countries have it all.
Those countries of the third world bordering with seas or oceans have again access to free swimming. The Ethiopian city life had always remained indifferent in this respect when even before the country became land-locked, since the sea was alien to the youth of the Ethiopian cities and the hinterlands because of its remoteness.
Nonetheless, arranging vast recreational centers in any of the developing countries is a long time project. It would be unfair to blame any government for not providing enough since basic recreational facilities like parks, swimming pools, fun fairs, cinemas and theaters go sometimes with the creation of the cities themselves. We were not fortunate in this way.

However, today there is better outlet to arrange some mass-oriented facilities, within the free-economic system, to be used on token payments in all the principal cities and important towns of the federated states as these places are reorganizing themselves on improve yearly budgets.
I think the spiritual elevation of every youth in this respect will help create a new society free from corruption, drug abuse, and reduce the mass habit of chewing qat.
The primary tasks of responsible states and governments lie in their abilities to attract the mass youth towards looking into themselves and prepare them to be nation builders.
In the pursuit of this onerous task of building a new responsible generation, there should be a broad-thoroughfare of choice; one need not be confined to parochial thinking. The youth should be told to be transparent, honest, disciplined, and responsible citizen. It should adjust itself to the free-economic system of growth, and not be confined to segmented outlook.
Thus, the arrangement and creation of affordable recreation centers throughout the nations of Africa, particularly, Ethiopia, will help to bring about the type of ideals discussed above.
Secondly, a disciplined youth in its daily life through revival of spiritual values will ensure the loftiness of intellectual integrity in the nation, because of the inevitability of youth concern for higher education in order to build its country firmly on the basis of applied sciences and technologies.